Cool new bike I didn’t know about. It looks like you could carry a fridge on that. I’d like to see a Cargo Bike Challenge at the next Oregon Manifest!
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my Quickbeam
Pre-funky hubs. Someone favorited it on Flickr, which brought the picture back to my attention.
Wilderness Trail dirt drop bars, home-painted fenders and Salsa stem, skate-deck pedals. -
Podcast Interviews with Bike People
I just heard about this archive of interviews with bike industry folk (thanks!) that Tandemgeeks has archived. Dian Lees of the Outspoken Cyclist interviews all the brightest stars of the cycling-nerd galaxy. I’m looking forward to listening to them, and I thought I’d pass them along. They’re all from 2011 and late 2010, and the list includes some people I really respect.
Cycling Interviews on Tandemgeek v. 1
- Don Walker, Builder & Founder of NAHBS
- Craig Calfee, Calfee Design & Bamboosero
- Dr. Gabe Mirkin, Nutrition & Fitness
- Gary Fisher, On Gary Fisher
- Diane Lees, “The” Outspoken Cyclist: The Outspoken Cyclist takes an opportunity to get better acquainted with our host, Diane Lees. Diane has been interviewing personalities from all corners of the cycling universe for some time now. Diane isn’t your typical artist or writer; and although she’s a bicycle dealer, Hubbub Custom Bicycles isn’t your average bike shop.
- Richard Schwinn, Waterford/Gunnar
- Steven Bilenky, Bilenky Cycle Works
- Jacquie Phelan, MTB Legend
- Ben Serotta, Serotta Cycles
Tandemgeek’s Interviews with Cycling Luminaries v.2
- Rob Vandermark, Seven Cycles
- Keith Bontrager, Bontrager
- Richard Sachs, Richard Sachs Cycles
- Brent Steelman, Steelman Cycles
- Paul Price, Paul Components
- David & Brenda Vandevelde, MBS Tandems
- Maynard Herson
- Mark Livingood, TheTandemLink.com
Visit Tandemgeek to listen to the podcast interviews.
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Great SheDevil build from Fairmount Bicycles in Philly.
Great SheDevil build from Fairmount Bicycles in Philly., originally uploaded by handsomecycles.
Pretty bike! Handsome Devil “SheDevil” with reverso levers and a nice rear brake setup.
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No opener?
Just a free idea for opening beer when you’ve left your pocket knife at home. No knife (TSA), no keys (why bring them? my car and my home are 4300 miles away). No lighter (you know the lighter trick, right?), and my asthma inhaler was looking like it wasn’t going to open any more bottles lighter-style without bursting. Not really worth the risk.I bought this Petaluma-brewed Lagunitas in a New York City drugstore, and my boss suggested the door-closing device in our hotel room as an opener. The other boss suggested a super-painful way involving my wedding ring (super-not-recommended).
Beer cap goes over the lower bar of the door-closer, and the top bar acts as the fulcrum. Perfect. I used the trick in the Javits Center, too.
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the Thinny pedal?
Hmm… that pedal looks really good to me.
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Bell at sunset on the bridge
I love this picture.
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first use of the new park stand
I tightened up the S3X cog carrier (using a tool, not my fingers), which will hopefully get rid of that “bzzzrp!” sound at low-speed high-torque right-pedal revolutions. Also made a tiny adjustment to the shifter tension, which was much much easier with the rear wheel off the ground.
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Bike hood ornaments – Lil Fender Friends
The rough-hewn look of these is really* appealing and a bit affecting. I like this beaver one, since I’m in Oregon (there’s a Duck, too, I think), but they’re all good. Jump to the MocoLoco post I saw, or poke around the web. Maiwenn’s “Liam” mailbox is really good, too.There’s an acorn I like, too. I think food items would be great hood ornaments – you could always be chasing that carrot. Cupcakes. I think I’m going to steal the idea and put zero work into it – just glue a sturdy plastic pig to my front fender. That idea just cracks me up.
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Bubba’s barcon hack
Short and sweet top-line barcons, made out of Rivendell thumbshifters and Silver barcon bodies. See more in Hillbubba’s flickr stream.
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Grognard bars from NAHBS 2008
Flat bars in every sense of the word! Integrated single brake lever, and tubular bar-ends welded (fillet brazed?) on.
I think they’re kind of ugly, especially in contrast to the sweet lines of the rest of the bike (the stem extension itself, for example), but I really like that Grognard is trying something new.
I wonder if you could build LED lights into those extensions…
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Light Mount Finished
Light Mount Finished, originally uploaded by Uncle Bicycle.
Yes! Give that a gander, and look at your bike for suitable spots to use it.
I saw this and thought, “Hey, that gives me an idea! It’s stupid that all bike accessories are supposed to go on a handlebar, instead of mount to an eyelet. What if I made a thing that mounted to threaded eyelets, but let you mount handlebar accessories on them?”
And then my brain said, “That’s exactly what you’re looking at, nimrod.”
My internet friend Gino came up with something that does the same job. Paint this one black, jam a bar-end reflector into it and call it done.
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Curtis Odom Stainless Crankset – NAHBS Sneak Peek
Curtis Odom Stainless Crankset – NAHBS Sneak Peek, originally uploaded by spoke sniffer.
Whaaat? Those look amazing. I can’t wait to see them in person. Spoke Sniffer says that DiNucci will show these cranks on a bike at NAHBS, and MAP and DinNucci will both have bikes with his Airlitesque hubs.
Fantastic.
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Bike sculpture on Etsy
I’m pretty sure this would work. The front rider drives the front wheel, the rear rider drives the rear wheel, for Dual-Drive tandem traction. I made this wire sculpture to show how it would work, and mounted it in a weathered wooden box. The nail axles are what hold the sculpture inside the box.For sale on Etsy. This picture was used as an editorial illustration in Bicycle Times magazine. I have lots of drawings of this bike setup, with different tubing configurations. I think I could make one out of a couple of old three-speeds.
I have a series of sculptures mounted in weathered wooden boxes that I call “Workboxes.” They’re mostly metal items mounted inside boxes I found in my dad’s orchard.
